Miscellaneous SM information
Staggenborg chs. 4-7
Anonymous
Right/conservative movements
Black Lives Matter
100
We defined social movements as
What is organized collective challenges by people with common purposes in in sustained struggles for (or against) social change using mostly non-conventional, disruptive means?
100
The Morris reading on the Civil Rights Movement's Birmingham campaign argues that the movement's ____________ and _____________ better explain its victory in Birmingham than the _________________.
What is internal capacity for mobilization; its use of multiple tactics; violence thesis?
100
"Lulz" refers to _________________ and is important to the Anonymous social movement because __________________.
What is laugh out loud? What is it was part of the founding ethos of the collective and has continued to be a source of group identity and culture of the movement?
100
The ______________________ approach to explaining social movements suggests that conservative movements form out of the often irrational concerns about the loss of prestige of certain groups and/or nervousness that loss.
What is status politics/status anxiety?
100
The US Department of Justice's report on the Ferguson criminal justice system best fits with which of our key factors in terms of explaining the rise of Black Lives Matter.
What are grievances?
200
The definition of sociology is
What is the study of patterns of social relations and how those patterns shape what people do and think?
200
The _____________ of the women's movement focused primarily on ________________, whereas the _____________ of the women's movement focused more on ___________________ and ___________________.
What is the first wave; voting rights; second wave; equal rights across the board; women's liberation?
200
_________________ is one-sided or monopolistic control of knowledge and/or facts that biases or enhances the power of that one-side.
What is information asymmetry?
200
The problem with using conventional theories such as political opportunity and resource mobilization to explain conservative movement emergence is that ______________________
What is such movements often emerge even in the absence of changes in political opportunities or resources?
200
____________________ in the Ferguson shooting of Michael Brown include the leaving of his body on the street for four hours, police use of attack dogs on protesters and even family members, police destroying memorials to the victim.
What are suddenly imposed grievances?
300
Socially shared but non-routine responses to events, things, or ideas. These responses emerge in group behavior where cultural guidelines are absent, inadequate, or in dispute, where new norms and behavior may emerge.
What is collective behavior?
300
According to Staggenborg and our class discussions, the LGBT movement experienced differential success across countries because of varying ___________________, such as ________________________.
What are political opportunities; whether there as a strong court system, a parliamentary system, and referenda available?
300
Anonymous collective action framings attribute the fault of information asymmetry to _______________ and ________________.
What are the government and large corporations?
300
The __________________ theory explains the rise of conservative movements by examining threats to the economic, political, and cultural power of groups in society.
What is power devaluation theory?
300
Key internal conflicts within the BLM noted by Taylor include __________.
What are divisions between generations divisions, over gender identity and sexuality, over the source of resources, over disruptive vs. more institutional, electoral politics?
400
The first term refers to sense of wrong or injustice experienced by a collective, whereas the second involves an interpretation of that sense, emphasizing what the problem or injustice, who is to blame, what can be done about it, and why people should act collectively to make it right.
What are grievances and collective action frames?
400
The free rider problem has loomed particularly large for the environmental movement because _________________________.
What is the scale of the public good (environmental problems) is so large, the SM had a low identity-base, and the SM had relatively weak pre-existing networks or mobilizing structures?
400
Sauter argues that Anonymous did not invent hactivist actions like DDOS attacks but the fact that it did develop them and make them more access suggests the importance of __________________.
What is tactical innovation?
400
Cramer argues that conventional interest-based models of collective political action fail to account for the importance of _________________________________.
What is the sense of social identity that is shaped by place and us vs. them categorizations?
400
The three communities studied in the Freelon article are _________________.
What are Black Lives Matter, political conservatives, mainstream news?
500
Four key things that help social movements sustain and maintain their collective challenges are _________
What are resources, opportunities, effective framing, and tactical innovation?
500
___________________ are important for social movements in part because they provide opposition to the SM and help it recruit participants and foster tactical innovation.
What are countermovements?
500
Key precipitating events associated with the emergence of Anonymous include _____________
What are the Scientology, MPAA, Wikileaks, and Arab spring campaigns?
500
According to Heaney, the three strands of the contemporary conservative movement are ________________
What are establishment, populist, and grassroots?
500
Compared to the older Civil Rights Movement, the Black Lives Matter movement is _________________________.
What is less hierarchical (without overarching leaders), less bureaucratic, more open to the diversity within the black community, less male-dominated (among other things)?
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